In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

Pelosi announced Nov. 6 that she would not seek another term, marking the end of her nearly 40-year career in Washington, DC.

In California, though, Proposition 50’s passage is set to make its House districts a much deeper shade of blue.

Republicans tried to recruit former Gov. Chris Sununu but ended up with former Sen. John E. Sununu. Nevertheless, state ...

The California Democrat led her party in the House for two decades. Her decision will open up her San Francisco-based seat ...

If Democratic powerbrokers are looking for a more reasoned, commonsense, politically attractive “center-left” voice to ...

Demoted after leading Brazil's largest seizure of illegal lumber in the Amazon last year, police chief Alexandre Saraiva ...

That is total, absolute bull----!' " Watch how Democrats are addressing the race issue in Ohio » The AFL-CIO says its campaign will include 70 million phone calls to union households in key ...

Here's what some Black women in Detroit have to say about Mary Sheffield after she is elected the next mayor of the city.

All three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who sought reelection will get another term, ensuring Democratic jurists keep ...

The CNN Election Tracker fundraising map displays how much money the presidential contenders Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain have raised during the 2008 presidential election. The map ...

Cheney may not have foreseen how Trump would use the powers of the presidency that Cheney had helped reclaim. “Dick Cheney ...